Thomas's Burlesque Drama: The Beggar's Opera, Tom Thumb, The Tailors, Midas, Bombastes Furioso, The Mayor of Garratt

(The Beggar's Opera, Tom Thumb, The Tailors, Midas, Bombastes Furioso, The Mayor of Garratt) Six plays issued together as Thomas's Burlesque Drama by the London publisher Joseph Thomas in 1837. Bound in decorative red blind stamped cloth with gilt to the spine and all edges gilt. Old bookshop label of 'Lacy Theatrical Bookseller 89, Strand London' on the first yellow pastedown. (Thomas Hailes Lacy was a bookseller and publisher who later went into partnership with Samuel French.) Each play has its own title page and frontispiece by Robert Cruikshank. Tear to bottom edge of final yellow endpaper where it has adhered and pulled away from final pastedown. An uncommon collection which was issued in various formats. Altogether a fascinating collection in a very good copy of this uncommon book.